wild select michael raffl

hello and nice good sunday morning--------michael raffl was the last possible austrian to pick in yesterdays live draft session and the wild are very happy they got him-------------michael raffl was born dec 1988 in villach  same town where grabner is from  and his older brother thomas also plays hockey (he also tried junior in whl but no sucess)  ------michael started playing for villacher sv  his hometeam in the season 2011 he made his chance playing in sweden 2 nd division for a team called leksands   there he played together  with shiinng rookie filip forsberg ----------    he played 2 years in sweden and after that he got the chance of a contract from the flyers  and again he sucedeed      ----his first year was not good nor bad he always said he is just happy he got the chance undrafted from europe his age playing in the nhl-------------this year looks pretty well so far michael scored his 8th goal today vs the canes----------first comment was he is so happy to play with his budday grabner in same organasation   two boys from small town in austria conquering minnesota   ---------- stay tuned for breaking news from the wild  lot greets harald